Improvement in trace-buckles



m T. HAYES.

Trace-Buckles.

Patented July 6,1875.

ATTEST:

INVENTOR:%//-/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MILES T. HAYES, 'OF BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRACE-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,230, dated July 6, 1875; application filed January 28, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MILES T. HAYES, of Burlington, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented an Improvement in Trace-Buckles, of which the following is a specification The nature of this invention relates to improvements in trace-buckles and has for its object to so construct such buckles that a direct draft can be had; that the buckle will be provided with a double tongl ie that there will be no pinching of the trace; that will be cheaply constructed, strong, and durable.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved buckle, attached to sections of a trace. Fig. 2 is a like view of one of the parts of buckle. Fig.3 is a similar view of another of the parts of buckle.

Like letters refer to like parts in each figure.

In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents that part or section of the trace which is securedto the hame, While the other and opposite end is secured in the usual way to the bar a of the buckle, a hole being punched in the leather to admit the passage of the tongue I), which projects from said bar a, which latter forms one end of the main part of the buckle. This part-may be provided with loops 0 on each of its sides, for the purpose of securing the back-strap and belly-band of the harness. The opposite end of this part of the buckle curves upward, asshown in Fig. 2, and the two sides 01 are connected by the girt e, underneath which the end of the trace B is inserted. The sides are also connected together, upon alower plane than the girt c, by the tief, which also serves another purpose, hereinafter referred to. There are two projections or small flanges, 9, one projecting inwardly from the top edge of each of the sides 01. The other part of my buckle is shown in Fig. 3, and consists of a fiat bed, h,

from which pro ects a rigid tongue, 13. The opposite end curves upwardly and outwardly, and the two ends are connected by the flat girt k, the whole of this part forming a movable loop. The end of the trace B is inserted under the girt k, and the tongue i passed through a suitable hole punched inthe trace. The end of the trace B is then inserted under the girt e, in Figs. 1 and 2, and the movable loop is also inserted under theflangesg, and the tongue I) passed through another suitable hole in the trace. These holes should be so punched that the first draft or strain is brought onto the tongue 12 until the stretch is taken out of the trace, when the tongue 6 will strike the girt 0, when the strain or draft will be on both tongues alike.

The movable loop passing over the trace, between the tongues and underneath the flanges g, is for the purpose of holding the trace on the tongues. v t

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The trace-buckle described, in two parts, wherein the bar a, with the tongue I), the sides cl, girt e, and tief, of one part, and the bed h,

tongue 6, and girt k, of the other part, are con structed and arranged substantially'as de scribed.

Y MILES T. HAYES. Witnesses R. BRIEGEL,

J. A. WAGNER. 

